PhD position within the area play and design
Regeringen
- Kolding, Syddanmark
- Permanent
- Fuldtid
- Highlights the material and spatial aspects of transitions from kindergarten to school.
- Focuses on play in the material and spatial aspects.
- Focusing on exploring scale and different materials.
- Focusing on how play can be supported, fueled, and enhanced by involving materials and spatialities with different affordances, and how these can support community building, settling, and belonging in school.
- Strong design competences will be applied to do the project.
- Design-based research (DBR)
- Research through design (RtD)
- Design experiments
- Participatory design
- Child-centered approaches to design research
- Overview of existing knowledge and positioning
- A theoretical approach for understanding play, materials, and spaces.
- Research question(s)
- Research methodology and methods.
- Main contributions and outcomes
- Bibliography/references
- CV
- Maximum of 5 pages portfolio.
- A CV indicating educational levels and achievements as well as work experience. In addition, it is also possible to send a 5 pages portfolio.
- Diploma or alternatively a complete transcript of records for the MA degree. To be considered for the position, the applicant must have, as a minimum, a two-year MA degree, preferably from a design program, prior to the date of appointment.
Our school has the policy that if we employ a person unfamiliar with the Danish language, then the person is obliged to develop skills to communicate in Danish society within three years.Application processPlease apply through Design School Kolding's recruitment system which you find on the advertisement at the school's website.After the application deadline, a shortlist of the most promising applications will be made, which will then be assessed. When the committee has finished its review procedure, each shortlisted applicant will receive an assessment of his or her application.We welcome both national and international applications. Design School Kolding wishes to reflect its surrounding community and encourages anyone to apply for the position, irrespective of personal background.The application deadline is August 15, 2024, and the assessment will happen shortly thereafter.The position is to be filled by November 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.For further information, please contact secretary of research and development Christina Stind Rosendahl, phone +45 91 33 30 04 or mail: or project leaders of the Playing Transitions and Head of Research LAB Design for Play, Professor Helle Marie Skovbjerg or Docent Ane Bjerre Odgaard, UCSyd,Also, please read the Design School Kolding or pay a visit to the school website: